Gawain and the Green Knight - Exploring Arthurian Lore 

Spencer Klavan’s podcast on the poem was fantastic, and the translation by Simon Armitage is fantastic.

A promise made is a promise kept

It also is about the church taking over the pagan gods and nature. Remember that no matter the game, nature will win. So be brave while playing, we all end the same.

Everyone always gives a hard time to the church for the bad its done is the past ignoring all the good its done like stopping slavery, feeding the sick and poor, giving shelter to the needy, caring for orphans, and so much more, the church in the past was held to such a high regard that it was pretty much the government, and as with our present governments, there are those who climb the ranks with no intent to improve the country but instead to destroy and steal and conive but for some reason the church is blamed like they've only ever orchestrated the worst atrocities in history

@@ridgefrost The church is held to a high standard, unlike secular governments. So anything bad that the church did in the past will be brought up and scrutinized. And it's not like you can sweep the bad things the church did under the rug and say "oh look at the good", the church definitely needs to repent, and they're some sins the church hasn't repented yet. Such as the sexual abuse scandals that still persist to this very day, or the covering up of mass grave sites of indigenous people.

Your comment reminds me of a sketch from " Monty Python " . 🦶🐍👽🤺🏰🧙‍♀️🧟

I think he's light headed

That is what "The Black Knight" said. The Green Knight would have to come up with something better.

It will grow back, right?

@@christopherlewis1315 I think he just put it back on when he left.

Power move

The Green Knight: *picks up own head* One, year, hence. Sir Gawain: Dammit, I knew I should have went with a scratch like he said!

The Green Knight: “One year hence lol”

well they figured if they killed the guy he wouldnt be able to repay the blow

He's fucking green that fool ain't normal would not risk it

The point of the challenge is that you can't take the easy way out. Everyone is watching, so if you give him a tiny nick, you look like a coward in the eyes of everyone. It's a game of chicken where the objective is to give him the strongest blow you are willing to receive in turn. Gawain is reckless and thinks he can get out of it proving himself brave and strong without accepting the return blow.

@@whitewolfO1 then give him a strong non lethal blow

@@whitewolfO1 Why is it brave to kill someone who has bent over to let you do it and won't fight back though? Gawain's a dick, he doesn't deserve a head.

I would love to see Le Morte d’Arthur adapted as a TV series. But of course that sounds REALLY expensive. What quality entertainment isn’t?

That was a great movie

Young sexy ass helen mirren yes

My favorite adaptation (though probably not the most canonically accurate) would be *Merlin 1998* . Starring; Sam Neil, Helena Bonham Carter and Miranda Richardson.

Love Excalibur! The best Arthurian story, I think..of course Richard Harris' performance on Broadway was exceptional!

2nd person is rarely done. Also yes awesome comment

Care to share the paper?

"duel"

Share the your paper! You can put watermark on it to prevent reproducing! Thank you! Would love to read it!

"mortality wounded in a dual" Did you graduate high school?

Very cool! 💓

Yay!

Sean Connery played the Green Knight in Sword of the Valiant.

Can you do the 7 Archangels

Awesome video as always, glad to hear you plan on being more consistent! Hope to see more Arthurian stuff too! The Green Knight film coming out looks pretty good imho, might be my first theater experience in almost two years lol

I wonder how many people don't understand your reference?! lol

@@MarkLewis... I wonder how many of the upvotes do get the reference.

Wow. A man of culture, I see. Nice reference, good sir! Nice reference indeed.

Hell yea now that would be a good porno lol

@@XeroFailGames pfft gay porno version Lord: Good sir, what do you have for me today? Gawain: *starts taking his belt off* Lord: WTF Gawain: DOn't ask, I'm ashamed meet me in my room in ten minutes and get it over with.

Sir Gaywain

@@wolftitanreading5308 I was gonna say that’s incest but the original myths so yeah

The whole point in the movie is that he betrayed the lord far before the last night BECAUSE he refused to also sleep with the lord and instead just gave him kisses like before. Bro was doomed.

Me too, also with robin hood

Growing up, I burned my days with Arthurian Legend and kids my age thought I was weird.

@@juliaj7939 I hope A24 does produce movies about Indian myth. I've seen a lot of people riled up by this casting Julia, but I think the truth is that Hollywood does not, or at least has not, throughout history, provided actors of color many roles to shine. For example, there have been ballpark 50 films about Arthurian legend, but very few hollywood films about African mythology, Native American mythology, Indian Mythology, etc. I think Dev Patel is an excellent choice for this role, and as someone who has read and studied Arthurian myth, I'm quite excited to see this film.

@@juliaj7939 Like how Scarlett Johanson playing a Japanese woman in Ghost in the Shell and Jake Gylenhall play middle eastern character from Prince of Persia? Get out of here with your race baiting.

@@qshoodornament at least those actors look like the character they are playing, can't say the same for gawain

@@juliaj7939 jesus christ Julia, find something important to be pissy about.

@@warrenwest407 But they do not. Also, Tilda Swanson playing Ancient One in Marvel movies. Hollywood loves to cast white people in other race roles. You are just too much of a asscrap to notice.

Me too!

The 2021 movie is crap, very little like the poem, and the movie suffers for it.

@@perniciouspete4986 why? I thought it was quite well done despite its strangeness because it diverges from the source material which is understandably, but detrimentally, simplistic by comparison.

​@@deecee796 I now present to you the most historically-accurate Arthurian tale ever told: "Once upon a time there was a roman general who protected a fort in what is now England. He had a sword that was called "sword." Also, in perhaps another time, there was a crazy old bard wandering around Wales. The End."

Fern can not be confused with anyone

@@chanbricks4461 yes he can.

@@chanbricks4461 he showed up with a new look and said “I’m the green knight” I just rewatched the episode today.

I would respectfully disagree. The Green Knight is an artistic piece first and Arthurian tale second. I found the ending particularly heinous and confusing, and I would not recommend. Though if you have seen it then I wouldn't mind hearing other reviews. Perhaps I missed something.

@@grinninggoblin3698 The ending is one of VERY few subversions that actually works... SPOILERS. . . . . . . . . . . . I though the first ending we got was going to be it and I was disappointed that they went with a "what if" and had Gawain fail his quest and lie about it. It was a bit interesting with what happened after King Arthur died after making Gawain heir and see that in the end, he was always weighed down by the sash he had on. After taking it off and accepting his death, he woke up to being in the green chapel again and decided to take off the sash. This rebuilt his character from growing, flawed, but well intentioned knight, to someone worth of the title and story to tell. It is a perfect subversion because it then rebuilt him back and for the better. Hollywood fails at subversion because they don't bother rebuilding and thus the subversion becomes destruction.

@@crocidile90 that's an understandable way of looking at it. SPOILERS BELOW: . . . . . . . . . . . I saw Gawain not as a well intentioned knight trying to live up to the legends that are the other knights, but as a self-serving jerk. He is a dishonorable man, and a coward. In the ending he witnesses a vision of his life should he run away in which he spends the rest of his life as a miserable and dishonorable man. When he wakes in the chapel he choses to die. I saw this not as redemption, but as resignation. If he cannot live honorably then he should die honorably. That is the message I took from the film. In the written story I saw Gawain as a man trying his best, but with doubts that in the end the Green Knight corrects. In the film Gawain is a knave who gives up on life. In short, it isn't a hopeful redemption, but the final failure of a fool. It's the culmination of Gawain's actions in the film and vision that paint him so poorly. It doesn't help that we cut the scene after the Green Knight chops in which motivations are shared and explored.

@@erdelegy the green Knight was definitely just joking around with him at the end, since the whole thing was orchestrated by his mother.

Kinky

What a chad

Mind you, she was kissing him, Gawain is too chad to fuck another mans wife

@@Benxall but he kissed the king , sus

@@TeamBOBBYEE sounds like something someone who's never getting that royal kiss would say.

What the abridged story?

@@joshscott5213. From what I can remember it didn't have the part about the Royals. It was just the beginning and the ending with the knight himself

I love lore about Cu.

Some people think Gawain is a welsh corruption of Cuchullain, not sure how true that is

Jesus Christ?

@@lukelokesh8681 King of King's and Lord of Lord's

@@dravenocklost4253 who? You referring to Jesus Christ I guess, nvm

@@lukelokesh8681 nope. thanks for trying though

I actually liked it more than the original story haha SPOILERS: Seeing Gawain's success and failures flipped in this version made for a much more satisfying journey in my opinion - and seeing him earn his Knighthood was fantastic. Absolutely adored the film!

Total bugman movie. More subversion of European folklore and culture

It was actually awesome the sound design on the green knight was insane every time he moved you could feel it

I enjoyed A24's The Green Knight. While some interpretations were just that - interpretations, I felt the film honored the original source material well in spirit if not line by line. Far from Hollywood's interpretations and much more enjoyable IMO.

@@smokebacca are A24 paying you to outright lie on the Internet?

Hey did u watch fate?

@@gamikash6796 yes a while back why do you ask? 🙃

Me neither, but I’m glad Adventure Time didn’t copy it completely

Lol... oh my sweet summer child.

what is the episode called? I don’t remember it

@@Ash.Crow.Goddess why do girls always say that its so cringe

@@heftymagic4814 You're so cringe. Stop asking cringey questions. And then go watch Game of Thrones.

Why not

@@shinobi-no-bueno - That would make the character boring.

The trailer seems to suggest that he is at least somewhat wise and thoughtful, so hopefully you’re right.

I thought it was a nice touch how they had the actor who played the Lord that Gawain meets be the same actor that voices the Green Knight without explicitly saying that they are the same person.

@@ShadowPa1adin They didn't - Joel Edgerton played the Lord, Ralph Ineson voiced/played the Green Knight

Yeah especially the part where the protagonist is an Indian.

@@eaglebearer the irony there is that the whole King Arthur legends *are* Welsh or Celtic meanwhile English act like it exclusviely belongs to them

@@thedoruk6324 Welsh and Anglo history is connected so it's not like it's a weird thing that they would also own the history aswell. That's completely different from an Indian playing a Celtic character. This would be like making a movie based on African legends from the Zulus, and casting a Chinese actor as the protagonist. Makes zero sense.

@@eaglebearer I knew they would ruin it.

@@eaglebearer it’s not that deep

The lack of common sense is what makes old stories the best tho XD

😂😁

Yeah but he also didn't know what to expect. Seemed like a trap.

Yes, indeed he could've meerely prodded him harmlessly and invited the green knight to the table for festivities, but that would've broken the character. It's good you ponder why he didn't slay the green knight, but I think you should look beyond the shallow canonical reasoning. What does Gerwian's actions mean? What is implied by the slaying of the green knight, and what would be if gerwain had not? These are the sort of questions i reccomend asking yourself if you want to enjoy analysing the text

@@re-crafted2993 Clearly, there is no story if Gawain isn’t prideful and cuts off the knight’s head, and his choice makes complete sense for such an immature character, but had he listened to the rules more carefully, he should have understood “hmm, maybe I shouldn’t kill this magical being who will do the same to me later…”

@@bencarlson4300 That's where the glory comes from. There is no glory in slaying a diss-armed man after all, that would break the code of chivalry. What do you think slaying the green knight represents in the context of the movie/ tale

@@re-crafted2993 The end of the softness of youth, the first action that will have genuine consequences to face, and the realization that heroism is earned, not given

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And you can race swap European characters from folklore/history, and not upset the woke scolds

The only people who care about race swaping are the anti woke and ant sjw crowd

@@guairefernandezamil4084 Yeah, I know. Proud af to consider myself one of those people, because woke sjws are loons..The woke scolds reeeee up a storm if you race swap any character from anything, if that character isn't white. However, do it with a white character, and they love it. Hypocrites..one and all.

@@HailEarendil I agree with you, but we've been at this for years at this point. Whether it be race swaps, gender swaps, random sexuality changes ect these studios and whatnot seem to be dead set at altering the basic attributes of characters and for what? A small round of applause? That's what's really frustrating about the new movie, it looks decent, marginally faithful and indie, but they just had to race swap the lead roll to make Twitter happy. It's just silly at this point.

@@HailEarendil Don't tell me you're upset at the fantasy movie about a knight facing a walking undead tree in a land filled with giants and talking animals for its lack of historical accuracy

The kisses might very well be a metaphor for something more...

I bet the green knight will be escanor giving the divine axe rhita bcos gren knighr also have a one handed axe weapon

First Knight, a variation .

@@_Luluko_ no one gives a shit

True, but it was a great movie

@@guairefernandezamil4084 Yeah we do. It’s called being accurate. This was a Medieval European story. That’s like saying they should cast a caucasian as the next Black Panther (Tchala).

@@ironrex6979 the trailers for this movie being so liked proves that those who care are just a whiny minority